Holocaust desecration, denial, and abuse, have all been components of Palestinian Authority ideology. Palestinians from both Fatah and Hamas have accused Israel of burning Palestinians in ovens, and alternatively have accused Zionists of committing the Holocaust against Jews for political, financial or social gain. A PA TV children’s broadcast taught that Israel burned Palestinians in ovens, and at an exhibit in Gaza children put dolls, representing Palestinian children, in a model oven adorned with a Star of David and a swastika. A PA daily wrote: "The exhibit includes a large oven and inside it small [Palestinian] children are being burned; the picture speaks for itself,” as if the exhibit was documenting something true. [Al-Ayyam, March 20, 2008] The event was sponsored by the Palestinian “National Committee for Defense of Children from the Holocaust.”

A senior Palestinian academic taught adults on PA TV: “There was no Dachau, no Auschwitz; these were disinfecting sites.” A Hamas TV documentary explained that it was Jewish leaders who planned the Holocaust, in order to eliminate Jews who were "disabled and handicapped”.

A crossword puzzle clue in the official PA daily identified “Yad Vashem” (Israel’s Holocaust memorial) as a “Center for the Holocaust and Lies.” The same PA daily has published many articles denying the Holocaust, including one that termed the Holocaust a “hen laying golden eggs.”

Schoolbooks produced by the Palestinian Ministry of Education teach the history of World War II in great detail except for the history of the Holocaust, which is totally ignored. One history book goes so far as to teach that Nazism was a racist ideology and that there were trials of Nazi war criminals, but it leaves out that Jews were the target of the racism, and the crimes for which the Nazis were on trial.

Palestinian education erases the actual Holocaust from history and usurps the word “Holocaust” or its own wide range of malicious libels.

This video depicts a PA TV children’s play teaching that Israel burned Palestinians in ovens.

"They [Israel] are the ones who did the Holocaust,
their knife cuts to the length and the width of our flesh...
They opened ovens for us, to bake human beings.
They destroyed the villages and burnt the cities.
And when an oven stops burning, they light a hundred [more] ovens.
Their hands are covered with the blood of our children."

[PA TV (Fatah), March 25, 2004]

In addition, admiration of Hitler continues to be a component of the PA world. A PA funded children’s publication published an essay written by a teenage girl admiring Hitler, who told the Palestinian girl in her dream: "I killed them [the Jews] so you would all know
that they are a nation which spreads destruction all over the world." This essay published in 2011, yet in spite of broad international condemnation following PMW’s exposure, it was not removed from the Palestinian educational website Zayzafuna, when we last checked in Oct. 2013.

Since 2012, there have been a number of statements by the PA or PLO officials acknowledging the Holocaust. This has not yet been incorporated into PA formal education.

The name Hitler does not carry the stigma in PA society that it does in the West. Both the Hamas weekly and the Fatah PA dailies have written in favorable tones about Hitler. To some Palestinians, the man and his name are worthy of admiration. While it may be surprising to Western observers to see official Palestinian sources presenting Hitler in a heroic light, it is important to note that the revulsion of Hitler that is taken for granted in the West is not true of Palestinian society.

A contributing factor to this admiration may be the history of the Hitler-Arab alliance during the Second World War. Amin Al-Husseini was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem at the time of the British Mandate. During World War II he moved to Berlin, where he was a Nazi collaborator and an associate of Hitler. Al-Husseini was on Yugoslavia's list of wanted war criminals, and was responsible for a Muslim SS division that murdered thousands of Serbs and Croats. When the Nazis offered to free some Jewish children, Al-Husseini fought against their release, and as a result, 5000 children were sent to the gas chambers.

The following are more examples of Hitler admiration amongst PA society:

Source:
Facebook page of the PA National Security Forces, June 3, 2016

Image posted on the official Facebook page of the PA National Security Forces on June 3, 2016

The picture shows Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini.

Text on left of image: “Men around Jerusalem”

Text on right of image: “Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini – ‘A right that is demanded will not be lost.’ If there is a practical example of this saying, it is Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini. This man lived the Palestinian cause until his last breath. After his death, one of Israel’s leaders said: 'Israel was meant to be created 10 or 15 years after the beginning of the project, but Amin Al-Husseini caused it to take decades.’”
Amin Al-Husseini was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem at the time of the British Mandate. During World War II he moved to Berlin, where he was a Nazi collaborator and an associate of Hitler. Al-Husseini was on Yugoslavia's list of wanted war criminals, and was responsible for a Muslim SS division that murdered thousands of Serbs and Croats. When the Nazis offered to free some Jewish children, Al-Husseini fought against their release, and as a result, 5000 children were sent to the gas chambers

Fatah Central Committee Member Tawfiq Tirawi: "There is a difference between an ‎officer's discipline and loyalty to a leader. The leader could be morally corrupt."‎ Ma'an host: "And how would you know?"‎ Fatah Central Committee Member Tawfiq Tirawi: "You have to know. Is there ‎anyone who does not know his leader?"‎ Ma'an host: "The German people did not know that Hitler was morally corrupt."‎ Fatah Central Committee Member Tawfiq Tirawi: "He was not morally corrupt."‎ Ma'an host: "The French think that de Gaulle was half prophet ‎. Churchill, I don’t ‎know what his story was, but people see him as one of the most important statesmen."‎ Fatah Central Committee Member Tawfiq Tirawi: "Let us talk logically. Hitler was not ‎morally corrupt ‎. He was daring‎."‎ Ma'an host: "Is that the way to talk? I say: Let's drink some tea and take a break. It ‎would be a pity to be put in jail because of this interview. We will drink tea and take a ‎break. Let's leave Hitler."‎Click to view videoClick to view bulletin

“The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories and preacher at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, met today, Tuesday, with a number of religious leaders and figures in Lebanon and laid a wreath of flowers on the grave of Haj Amin Al-Husseini.”

Haj Amin Al-Husseini was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem at the time of the British Mandate. During World War II he moved to Berlin, where he was a Nazi collaborator and an associate of Hitler. Al-Husseini was on Yugoslavia's list of wanted war criminals, and was responsible for a Muslim SS division that murdered thousands of Serbs and Croats. When the Nazis offered to free some Jewish children, Al-Husseini fought against their release, and as a result, 5000 children were sent to the gas chambers

Published on Facebook page of the Dalal Mughrabi Magazine, an electronic “magazine” published by the Culture Committee of the Fatah Shabiba student movement at the Birzeit University

MC reads and crowd repeats oath: “I swear by Allah the great, I swear by my honor and faith, that I will be loyal to Palestine and will sacrifice everything I can for its liberation. [I swear] I will not expose the secrets of the Fatah movement and what I know about it. We will remain loyal to it so that the institute of Martyrs (Shahids) (refers to Fatah’s Shabiba. –Ed.) at the university of Martyrs (probably Birzeit University. –Ed.) will be the beating heart of our unity and cohesiveness and so the flag of Fatah will continue to fly. This is the oath from here, and Allah is my witness.”

The first two images show students on stage making Nazi-like salute.

The last two images show the audience of students from Fatah’s Shabiba.

Note: The magazine is named after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when

‎“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ‎Netanyahu protested on his website (sic. – ‎should be: Facebook page) the materials ‎being published on the official Facebook ‎page of the Palestinian National Security ‎Forces on the issue of the right of return. ‎The Israeli Prime Minister’s website used ‎these materials to claim that 93% of our ‎people are Antisemitic! ‎
The Israeli Prime Minister’s website ‎published a cartoon that had appeared on ‎the Facebook page of the Palestinian ‎National Security Forces, which expresses ‎that Israel is preventing [the realization of] ‎the right of return and the implementation ‎of the decisions of the international ‎institutions regarding the Palestinian ‎refugees, and compared it to a cartoon ‎attacking Jews that had been published in ‎a Nazi newspaper in 1930.‎‏ ‏
On this issue, National Security Forces ‎spokesman Hafez Al-Rifai said: ‘This step ‎is part of the insane incitement campaign ‎the Israeli government is mounting against ‎the [Palestinian] leadership, in order to ‎dissuade it from continuing to demand the ‎rights of our people and from achieving a ‎just peace.’‎"
Text on cartoon: ‎
‎“93% of Palestinian adults have ‎Antisemitic opinions… ‎
The Nazi journal, Der Sturmer, 1930‎
Facebook page of the Palestinian National ‎Security Forces, 2014. ‎
This is the result of the PA’s incitement.
‎Source: the international study published ‎by the Anti-Defamation League.”‎

“Commissioner of the Scout [Movement] in the Hebron district, Hitler Abu Hammad, called to increase the number of activities that serve society and highlight the Scouts’ important voluntary role in Palestinian society.”

Headline: "Among Hitler's sayings"
"Don't argue with a fool because people won't be able to tell you apart."
"When the defeated smiles, he denies the winner the pleasure of victory."
"Don't challenge a man who has nothing to lose."
"A man remains a boy until his mother dies. When she dies he suddenly grows old."
"If you were stabbed in the back, know that you are in front."
"Be a friend, but don't aspire to have a friend."
"When you love your enemy, he feels his small worth."
"We are all like the moon - we have a dark side."
"Don't find fault in your wife's taste for she chose you in the first place."
"We love the past because it has gone. If it should return - (sentence cut off in original)."Click to view bulletin

Note: Zayzafuna's website states that the magazine's advisory board is comprised of Palestinian Authority officials and educators, including Jihad Zakarneh, PA Deputy Minister of Education, and Abd Al-Hakim Abu Jamous, Head of Media Department, PA Ministry of Education.
In May 2011, the Deputy Chairman of the Zayzafuna organization Abd Al-Karim Ziyada explained on PA TV that the PA gives "a monthly payment of 10,000 shekels ($2,700) to cover the magazine's [costs]." [Official PA TV, May 9 and 13, 2011]

Op-ed by Hassan Ouda Abu Zaher:
"'History is a great lie written by the victors' - said Napoleon Bonaparte, the source of dubious historical writing and father of Freemasonry in France. If so, is the history planted in us through TV and the standard educational curriculum indeed true? The source of this history is the West - the victor ever since the fall of Andalusia (Muslim Spain)! ...Our history is replete with lies, from lies about the corrupt [Caliph] Harun Al-Rashid, which ignore the sources indicating that he dedicated one year to pilgrimage [to Mecca] and one year to Jihad (i.e., he was a good Muslim), to the lie about Al-Qaeda and the Sept. 11 events, which asserted that Muslim terrorists committed it, and that it was not an internal American action by the Freemasons, which was mentioned in the Illuminati game cards ten years before it took place, and in over 15 Zionist and Freemason Hollywood-produced films in the 1990s. The method of repeating [the lies] over and over has authenticated false facts. Had Hitler won, Nazism would be an honor that people would be competing to belong to, and not a disgrace punishable by law. Churchill and Roosevelt were alcoholics, and in their youth were questioned more than once about brawls they started in bars, while Hitler hated alcohol and was not addicted to it. He used to go to sleep early and wake up early, and was very organized. These facts have been turned upside down as well, and Satan has been dressed with angels' wings..."Click to view bulletin

Source:
Facebook page of the Iktiba High School for Girls, June 21, 2012

The Iktiba High School for Girls in Tulkarem posted a picture of Nazi military leader Erwin Rommel ‎on its Facebook page. The post tells the story of how Hitler forced Rommel to commit suicide. It ‎ends with praise for Hitler: “The pinnacle of leadership, Hitler. Wonderful!”‎

Essay in Zayzafuna youth magazine glorifies Hitler:
“One hot day, I was very tired after a hard day… and suddenly I saw four white doors in front of me. I opened them in no particular order... I turned to the next door; there Hitler awaited me. I said, 'You're the one who killed the Jews?'
He [Hitler] said: 'Yes. I killed them so you would all know that they are a nation which spreads destruction all over the world. And what I ask of you is to be resilient and patient, concerning the suffering that Palestine is experiencing at their hands.'
I said [to Hitler]: 'Thanks for the advice.'"Click to view bulletinNote: Zayzafuna is a PLO magazine for children funded by the PA. The magazine, which includes material written by both the magazine’s staff and child readers, represents the values of the educators and serves as a window into the minds of the Palestinian children submitting material to the magazine. PMW’s book Deception includes a chapter on Zayzafuna. Following PMW’s exposure of Hitler glorification in the February 2011 issue, UNESCO halted its funding of the magazine. View UNESCO’s statement and PMW's bulletin on the December 2011 issue of the magazine.

Source:
The Voice of Palestine, official PA radio station, Nov. 27, 2007

Voice of Palestine radio contest "His golden year was 1940, when his armies invaded Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium and defeated France ... By mid 1942, his country controlled the largest land area in Europe… He refused to surrender and continued to fight for two more years, but, his bitter end came in the spring of 1945 when he took his own life…. Who is he?"

The Hamas weekly listed with pride the ways in which different foreign leaders singled out the Palestinians as examples of ideal revolutionaries. The first leader the Palestinian paper cited for praising the Palestinians was Adolf Hitler:
"Adolf Hitler, while exciting the Germans of the Sudetenland - the Sudetenland is a German province that the Allies had annexed to Czechoslovakia after the First World War - told them in his broadcasts: Look at what the Palestinian revolutionaries are doing to Great Britain!"

"Woman's Voice" supplement to Al-Ayyam PA daily: "Sometimes parents name their children with foreign names, due to the father's admiration for a foreign personality. This is the source of the names Rommel [Nazi General] and Napoleon."

"Even Adolf Hitler, who after the fall of Nazi Germany turned into a political horror for most writers and artists, during the last decades has started to reestablish his place in the picture. There are some in Britain who defended Hitler and tried to do justice for him. There are elderly people, among them Arabs, who still carry the name Hitler since their fathers, who were charmed by him, linked them [their children] with his name."